The Geographic Revolution in Early America : Maps, Literacy, and National Identity.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: The Geographic Revolution in the Wilderness -- 1 The Surveyed Self: Geodesy, Writing, and Colonial Identity in Eighteenth-Century British America -- 2 The Continent Speaks: Geography, Oratory, and the Figuration of Identity in Revolutionary America -- 3 Maps, Spellers, and the Semiotics of Nationalism in the Early Republic -- 4 Geography Textbooks and Reading National Character -- 5 Novel Geographies of the Republic -- 6 Native American Geographies and the Journals of Lewis and Clark -- 7 Literacy for Empire: Geography, Education, and the Aesthetic of Territoriality -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

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